A Drink’s Purple Reign

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  • Posted By: Worldley @ 08/06/2008 5:31:53 PM

    MOnaVie is in fact a food suppliment, that's it! It is a proven fact that MOST Americans do not eat properly and this product helps in that manner, that's why SOME people experience outstanding results. Others, like myself are healthy and only experience minor results. Some people are tired of swallowing several pills to suppliment their diet. What draws poeple whom are truly looking for something more to this product and the company is the Leadership involved, high character and integrity surround most of the top leaders in this company. Another reason is the potential of making some extra money doing such an EASY business. Some have even "retired early" from building a proper MonaVie business simply from over comming their F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real).
    See for yourself some of the FACTS: www.the-team.biz/MV963447 and www.monavie.com
    P.S.- The FDA usually checs out medicine, not food suppliments. And yes, Distributers of MonaVie are not supposed to make specific health claims although they do get excited when it helps them with certain problems.... =)

  • Posted By: catsmeow @ 08/06/2008 4:37:43 PM

    I have just started bottling water from the Fountain of Youth.. I'll swing by with a bottle or two for you. It's not far from that swampland in Florida I just sold you.

    • Posted By: herewewere @ 08/06/2008 5:31:33 PM

      More ignorant comments. Since you know nothing about health, you just mock and jeer. And poor, deceptive articles such as this one at Newsweek only fuel the fire of ignorance.

  • Posted By: chadriness @ 08/06/2008 4:39:39 PM

    A friend gave me several bottles of Monavie. The Newsweek reporter who tried it didn't give it long enough.
    Most people don;t start to see a benefit until they are through their second bottle. I took only two ounces once a day (in the morning). I've suffered from GERD for 12 years. Changing nothing in my life but drinking the juice, my heartburn completely disappeared. No more Tums or Rolaids. Unfortunately, the stuff is too expensive. I can't afford it. So after 5-6 free bottles, I quit taking it. My heartburn returned the next day. The only time in my life I didn' t have it was when I drank Mona Vie. If it was $10 a bottle, I'd be on it again.

    • Posted By: exfuzenolimit @ 08/06/2008 5:31:22 PM

      Try Seven+... it's got the same health benefits + so much more!! Plus it's not as expensive because you only have to take 1 oz per day! Check it out.... www.exfuze.com/nolimit or iexfuze.com/nolimit

    • Posted By: abruer @ 08/06/2008 4:45:26 PM

      Amen! Fantastic!
      www.mymonavie.com/organicsuperjuice

      • Posted By: gr8mom1425 @ 08/06/2008 4:58:04 PM

        email me at getmonav@yahoo.com we can show you how you can afford it...

  • Posted By: harmik @ 08/06/2008 5:31:09 PM

    Comment: I am a personal trainer at 24 hours fittness super sport , actually i just stoped working there so i can focuse on Monavie & grow my bussiness, you know why because we love to drink Monavie & share it with our friends & family & the best part is no selling.
    I am a Ruby Executive in Monavie & i started 7 months ago.
    Call me or e-mail me for free monavie bottle.
    (818)3216409
    harmikhacopian@gmail.com

  • Posted By: monavie @ 08/06/2008 5:30:17 PM

    i'm guessing anyone bashing the company and the business is just sitting around doing nothing complaining about other people trying to better their life and income, basically doing something instead of nothing like most people. is it wrong to want to be healthier and make some extra money on top of what your doing now, even to try to help other to make some extra money.

  • Posted By: the superjuice source @ 08/06/2008 5:30:10 PM

    Comment: for better health and wealth with Monavie click "enroll now" at our website. Go to www.mymonavie dot com/thesuperjuicesource If you have any questions we can help with in any way, you can email us at thesuperjuicesource at yahoo dot com

    Take charge of your health and your financial situation today. We have an experienced team to help you.

  • Posted By: exRM @ 08/06/2008 4:47:19 PM

    So this Utah-based company sends unpaid missionaries door to door selling magic juice? Very creative.

    • Posted By: herewewere @ 08/06/2008 5:29:34 PM

      This is a very ignorant statement. Go take your pharmaceutical drugs, eat your processed food, and be quiet.

  • Posted By: newszombie @ 08/06/2008 4:53:33 PM

    This is a typical style of marketing and business I've seen in the LDS community for decades. Using in network sales by word of mouth and relatives/neighbors because of the large population of LDS members. Trust me, I've participated in a few things like this myself in an ISP company that was marketed the same way. There's lots of get rich quick schemes by LDS business people because their membership and marketability is huge. These marketing and business plans are in the most basic sense, pyramid schemes and now without pyramids and they call it peer driven. The few people in the beginning reap the most because they make money of their recruits who make money off their recruits. So it pyramids. I sell you, you sell the neighbor and the neighbor sales their relative but in the end I'll see some of the action from each level of sales and other variation. Let's say I sell you and sign you up as a seller. I have to choose my sellers correctly, so the more they sell the less I have to work to make my money off you. Also, when you decide to sign someone up to become a seller, you have to hope they will sell more and better than you so you don't have to work so hard. Get about 10 good sellers under you and you make money without working as hard. That's how these schemes work these days, just a variation of the pyramid. It's called Peer Driven sales.

    Health comes with nutrition and exercise and supplements may only help.

    • Posted By: herewewere @ 08/06/2008 5:28:13 PM

      This drink is the nutrition you speak of. This is not a pyramid scheme - this is a company selling something just like other companies. Cutco knives, encyclopedias (in the old days) - lots of companies use this model. This disgruntled "journalist" just felt the need to vilify this company and the healthful benefits of acai with one fell swoop. Shame on him - he was probably paid to do so by Big Pharma (I honestly wouldn't be surprised).

  • Posted By: mrstan @ 08/06/2008 5:05:16 PM

    I am from Brasil, and we use this berry for the health. IT is real and is essential for good health. This is from personal experience, just ask anyone from Brasil, we all use this fruit not only as a medicine but as a fruit drink.
    thanks!
    Stan

    • Posted By: bai4190 @ 08/06/2008 5:27:56 PM

      Stan: I would like to here more from you about how well this Acai Berry is for your health and how your family used it for years.

  • Posted By: rif242242 @ 08/03/2008 9:38:27 PM

    Can't wait till they put the Acai berry in pill form then we'll get some super results....

    • Posted By: Drinking&SharingTheJuiceForLife @ 08/04/2008 9:21:21 AM

      The human body absorbs liquids wayyyyyyyyyyyy better than pills???? Did you know studies have shown that Vitamins taken in pill form offer an absorption rate of up to 30 percent, but many liquid vitamins are boasting as many as a 90 percent absorption rate?? Any how...do some research...its very interesting.

      • Posted By: norskegal @ 08/06/2008 5:27:42 PM

        I'd like to add to your comment about the body absorbing juice much better than pills. Apple Cider vinegar has the same acidity as a person's stomach. If a pill doesn't dissolve in apple cider vinegar after 20 minutes then it's not dissolving in your stomach either so you're basically getting no benefit to the pill.

  • Posted By: KiffyLou @ 08/06/2008 5:24:08 PM

    All I have to say is I LOVE the product!! Be in charge of your health and your wealth, enroll today! Go to www.monavie.com, click enroll and put in Distributor ID# 1300917. We have a great team and a lot of fun!

  • Posted By: monavie @ 08/06/2008 5:22:58 PM

    i have to say miss juliana if you read anything about the company they do help the kids and by producing this drink they are saving trees, your talking about all these things your obviously know nothing about

  • Posted By: powerful_purplex @ 08/06/2008 2:06:46 PM

    Listen people, this is a miracle product. I am a black diamond distributor for this business. However, I have only worked with this miracle company for 6 MONTHS! I am already making 10,000 a week and 500,000 a year. My parents that were going in serious financial debt are now making serious money. Along with my spouse???s mother and father who live in Florida. This juice is a blessing from God! We can finally afford to call up my spouse???s parents and say ???Hey, lets go out to dinner in San Francisco, you free???? I mean it is seriously unbelievable how fast this company grows! I have wanted horses all my life so we moved to a nice ranch in higher-class homes (way higher) And now subside in a 2 acre beautiful home. Now that???s just the business half. I am not kidding you this stuff works. My mother who continuously gets headaches everyday and has severe asthma is feeling great. My father, who has tremendous fatigue and back problems, is cured. My brother who is autistic and who eats absolutely no fruits is drinking this stuff. And I can???t begin to tell you what it has done for me. God has blessed me with this amazing product, I can???t even begin to explain in words how hugely amazing my life has changed. And listen, for some people it affects them within in 30 min-1 hour (Me) but others can take up to 21 days. I know it seems like a long time, but once you get it in your system this Mona-Vie can perform miracles..

    • Posted By: powerful_purplex @ 08/06/2008 5:21:31 PM

      If you would like to buy this product, or want to enroll to distribute this item then please go to http://www.mymonavie.com/JKISAACSON/ or email john.isaacson@comcast.net
      I recommend you try this product. It is miracle juice

    • Posted By: montoym @ 08/06/2008 3:48:00 PM

      So there are at least 3 people in your immediate family(you, mother and father, spouse) who are making good money with this MLM company. You only mentioned your income of $500K/yr, but I guess we can assume over 6 figures for the others since everyone involved always claims to make a lot of money.

      So, from the story, which not one person has denied, the company has had cumulative sales of $1 Billion. They also have signed up their 1 Millionth sales person. So, let's do the simple math 1 Billion/1 Million = 1,000. That's not yearly either, that's cumulative over 3yrs. Now, even though that's an average figure, it really means nothing when you consider that there are a few people at the top taking the lion's share of the money. So, we have the couple in the story making $1 million each, and your 3 people who make, let's say $1 million total($500K from you plus $500K total from the other 2). That's $3 million(seemingly per year which goes even more against the cumulative $1 Billion figure) from 5 people. That adds up to 0.3%(3/10ths of 1%) of the company's total sales made by 5 people which is 0.0005%(5/ 1 million, or 5/10,000th of 1%) of the company's total salespeople. There can only be so many millionaires. So, playing with the figures once more, if the company were all millionaires, that's 1,000 millionaires to split the $1 Billion. So, what's left of the rest of the 1 million salespeople? They make nothing. Seen another way, that's 2,000 people making $500K/yr. Still leaves a huge number of people out in the cold.

  • Posted By: StansburyDave @ 08/06/2008 5:20:27 PM

    This is like the other drinks such as Xocai, Xango, and Exfuze. They all claim similar health benefits and some may be true. The ingredients are usually berries and chocolates (the bitter kind). I'm sure there are health benefits because of the antioxidants in the berries or other things that have been proven already, you can find these things in raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc. I work with a person who was conned into this business and had to drop $5,000 up front to get a few case of bottles that they can market for around $25 a bottle. Have they sold any outsided of family and friends? No. Yet those higher up on the pyramid are making money because they brought somebody into the fold. They are told by the slick words that this is as much a pyramid scheme as any corporation with the CEO making the most money. I may as wiell drink my koolaid and die with the rest of them if I am going to be brainwashed this way. I will stick with some strawberries or other berries that I can find at the store. What is going to happen to the "benefits" when they run out of berries grown naturally and they resort to using fertilizers and pesticides to keep the drinks coming

  • Posted By: Anna Jean @ 08/06/2008 4:58:07 PM

    I have read alot about the benefits of selling this "juice" but have yet to read about any personal experience. Is there any favorable results from this juice or is it just a blueberrie, orange, apple juice? It seems to me as though it is just a company taking advantage of people who are looking for a cheaper, quicker way to cure what ails us. There is some truth in holistic cures, the natural way, but does this "juice" cure anything?

    • Posted By: rgjlk @ 08/06/2008 5:18:46 PM

      do you know how to read other posts

    • Posted By: AnnieJ @ 08/06/2008 5:15:22 PM

      The reason you aren't reading about anyone's results is because we are not allowed to tell you how amazing this product makes us feel. We then would be telling things that could get our company in trouble for making claims. It is a fruit juice. Just happens to be 19 of the most beneficial fruits with the Acai berry, which has the highest antioxidant power of any fruit tested. We have a patent pending process on our Acai which makes it the best available. Trust me, we who have had amazing results from this juice would love nothing more than to tell you all of the amazing things that we have experienced, but that would cause problems for our company. So we are allowed to tell you that you will get your 12-14 servings of fruits and vegetables from 4ozs. of MonaVie. Drink to your health!!! Go to www.the-team.biz/MV299436 for more information. Do your own homework and research this for yourself. Best of luck to you.

  • Posted By: Report2FTC @ 08/06/2008 5:15:52 PM

    Hey Tony, editor of Newsweek,

    If you ever wanted to shut down a company like MonaVie, You have tons of emails, phone numbers and websites of sales reps making unethical medical claims on your blog. Turn that in to the FDA. Also Income claims can be turned into the FTC. They are spamming galore and it won't stop. lol Good job on stirring up a true pyramid scheme......

  • Posted By: funkyG @ 08/06/2008 5:11:39 PM

    What happened to just EATING fruits and vegetables?!? It's called a healthy diet of variety and moderation. It is very disheartening that our society is so caught up in the "get - rich/healthy/thin/beautiful - quick" scams. There is no miracle cure out there people and I am not being pessimistic - just realisitc.

  • Posted By: orly28 @ 08/06/2008 5:11:26 PM

    I was a distributor and drinker of MonaVie. I definitely felt the effects for about 6 months. I didn't suffer from any allergy attacks, which I was prone to and did not get sick. Again, this was for about 6 months. I also did not do so well with the business side of it. You really have to be committed, stay focussed, and spend a lot of time with your sales team. I didn't have the commitment or conviction. This seams to be the case for a lot of people. I think one of the reasons MovaVie makes so much money is that most of the people that get in, end up buying a lot of the product to share with others. They wind up keeping it when they bail out and have to drink it themselves. I bought about a year's worth of product which I still have some. I drink it every day though... I can't stop drinking it... It's one of the best tasting and most fulfilling health drinks I've had. I chug it right from the bottle. I just wish I could have gotten in on all of that cash the Diamond levels were making. I still have time and have not given up. GO MONAVIE!!!

  • Posted By: twilde @ 08/06/2008 5:11:04 PM

    If you want to know the truth and do your own research then go to my website at the-team.biz/mv984831
    You can decide for your self what this is all about and you can contact me if you have further questions.

  • Posted By: skier1 @ 08/06/2008 4:40:02 PM

    Great Scam. Sounds like a pyramidal business model with the top heavy people benefiting financially while the late comers benefit least.
    Why not just get a juice blender............

    • Posted By: ldurham @ 08/06/2008 5:11:03 PM

      Not typical, I'm making more than the person above me. It's all a matter of what you want to put into it. People get all wierded out by MLM's, but the fact is that everything...I repeat every thing (business) is a pyramid. Everyone is working for the person on top and the top keeps getting rich...uuuummmm this is a chance for not just the top to profit, but anyone willing to work.

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